9 Days Tanzania Camping

Overview

The Arusha National Park is a peaceful game-rich destination often bypassed by tourists. This is the best place to set up camp and start your African safari. Lake Manyara is next, a small park with a beautiful lake atmosphere and a good variety of birds and wildlife, including hippos. The next destination is Serengeti where the action never stops. This world renowned park hosts a wide variety of game in high densities in a beautiful diverse landscape. The annual wildebeest migration, the world’s biggest movement of big mammals, starts and ends in the Serengeti. You will then go another game-rich paradise, the Ngorongoro Crater. Ngorongoro is a game park within the world’s largest un-flooded caldera.

Day to Day Itinerary

DAY 1: KILIMANJARO AIRPORT - ARUSHA

You will be picked up at Kilimanjaro Airport and dropped off in Arusha for overnight at Christina house. Accommodation: Christina House [D,B]

DAY 2: ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK

In the morning you will be taken to Arusha National Park, a place often bypassed by tourist scrambling to get to the more popular parks. The three main attractions are; the Meru Crater – which hosts the Mt. Meru Peak from where Kilimanjaro’s majestic beauty can be seen in the distance, the Ngurdoto crater in the south eastern grasslands, and the shallow alskaline momella lakes with their abundance of birds. The wildlife includes the black and white colubus monkey, the blue monkey, waterbucks, giraffe, dik-dik, buffalo (in the wooded savannah area), warthogs and hyenas. There are leopards but sightings are few.
You’ll spend the whole day exploring this small park then in the late afternoon you will go to the campsite, set up, relax and later have dinner.

DAY 4: TARANGIRE/LAKE MANYARA

You will have an early breakfast before breaking camp headed for Lake Manyara, another relatively small park. You’ll drive through the lush garden stopping to view the hippos at hippo point. Also keep an eye open for the famous tree-climbing lions. You will have a picnic lunch and head out for another game drive. Zebra, wildebeest, bushbuck, dik-dik and guinea fowl regularly cross your path, unbothered by your benign presence and going about their daily routines. You’ll meander along bush tracks and explore the Lake which is home of thousand of Flamingos and River’s twists and turns, finding elephant drinking and playing in the refreshing waters.
Later you will set up camp and have some time to enjoy this Eden before dinner.

DAY 5: LAKE MANYARA/SERENGETI

Rise and shine in this blissfull place, then have breakfast and get back on the road headed towards Serengeti. You will make your way around the southern edge of the crater rim, spotting the occasional hyena, elephant, African buffalo, or warthog along the way. You will get to the Serengeti National Park, a vast endless savannah where the silence hides the pulsating rhythm of life that bursts into action every now and then. You will have lunch at Naabi Hill before you start exploring this classic African safari destination. Later on you will set up camp and join other travelers in the common dining area and later gathering around the blazing campfire.
Let the sounds of the wild lull you to sleep, another day in this spectacular place awaits.

DAY 6: SERENGETI FULL DAY

A full day at the Serengeti awaits. Lions lurk in the shadows in packs ready to pounce on unsuspecting prey. Cheetahs find the high spots to know where the Thomson’s gazelles are. Buffalos roam in huge protective herds, sometimes frightened into a stampede. Antelopes graze in tension as they keep a lookout for the numerous predators that like to hunt them. Such is the Serengeti. There are elephants, hippos, jackals and many other animals to see. The birds are also in plenty. You’ll spend the whole day in game drives with a brief break for lunch.
At sunset you will set up at Pimbi camp and relax before dinner.

DAY 7: SERENGETI/NGORONGORO CRATER

You will have an early morning game drive and then head off to Ngorongoro Crater for some other type of wildlife experience. You will drive to the base of the crater where you will have extensive game drives. This place is tranquil and unspoilt. About 25,000 large mammals live here; Wildebeest, impala, cheetah, crocodiles, buffalo, even the black rhinos and wild dogs and many more. There is a dense population of lions so sightings are quite common.
Later in the evening, you will set up camp and settle down for the night.

DAY 8: NGORONGORO/ARUSHA

Wake up to total tranquility and, after breakfast set off on an morning drive. There’s still a lot to see make sure you check off all the Big 5 and take some time at the lake to watch the birds go about. You might just catch one fishing.
Late you’ll enjoy a picnic lunch at a scenic spot and head back to Arusha enjoying game en-route. At Arusha you will check in at Christina House for dinner and overnight.

Day 9: Bye Bye

After breakfast you will check out of Christina House and the driver will drop you off at the airport.